Avenatti releases graphic Kavanaugh allegations, calls for new delayPost Date: 2018-09-26 13:20:30 by Justified8 CommentsAttorney Michael Avenatti, on the eve of Brett Kavanaugh's high-profile hearing to address sexual misconduct allegations, identified and released a "sworn declaration" from a woman who claims the Supreme Court nominee was involved in "gang" rapes in the early 1980s. Avenattis client was identified as Julie Swetnick, who further claims in the statement that Kavanaugh and a friend were "present" when she became a "victim of one of these 'gang' or 'train' rapes" in 1982. Kavanaugh issued a strong denial in response, saying in a statement: This is ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone. I dont know who this is and ...

Kavanaugh will use 1982 calendar to deny sex assault claimsPost Date: 2018-09-24 10:44:57 by Justified2 CommentsSupreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will turn over calendars to the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1982 that do not show him attending a high school party where Christine Blasey Ford said he sexually attacked her, according to a report on Sunday. The calendars show that Kavanaugh, then a teenager, was out of town during most of that summer at the beach or with his parents, the New York Times reported, citing someone working on his confirmation hearings. While at home in suburban Maryland, Kavanaughs calendar listed basketball games, movies he went to, football workouts and college interviews. It mentioned several parties, but the calendar included names of friends other than ...

Feinstein under fire for handling of sexual assault allegations against KavanaughPost Date: 2018-09-19 16:59:11 by Justified5 Comments Sen. Dianne Feinstein was one of four female senators who rode into Washington in 1992 amid a political backlash over the all-male panel that quizzed Anita Hill on her sexual harassment allegations against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas a year earlier. Now as the top Democrat handling the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh, the California senator finds herself in the middle of the political maelstrom over sexual assault allegations against another high court nominee. Republicans accuse her of withholding the allegation until the most politically advantageous moment. Even some Democrats initially complained that she didnt share the explosive information ...

The Obvious SuspectPost Date: 2018-09-09 10:41:00 by Willie Green4 CommentsThe quest to unmask the New York Times op-ed writer has been filled with speculation. But the articles prose points to one person in particular. Who wrote the anonymous op-ed against President Trump in Wednesdays New York Times? All we know for certain is what the Times disclosed: that its a senior official in the Trump administration. But the most likely author, based on the op-eds content and style, is the U.S. ambassador to Russia, Jon Huntsman. Huntsman is an obvious suspect for several reasons. The articles themes are classic Huntsman: effusive about conservative policies, blunt about low character. In 2016, he made the same points for and ...

North Carolina hit with subpoena for millions of voter records by federal officials investigating fraudPost Date: 2018-09-06 14:14:24 by Justified4 CommentsFederal immigration officials have subpoenaed more than 20 million documents related to voter records in North Carolina as part of an investigation into alleged fraud. The official request is the most exhaustive on record for election officials, North Carolina State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement (NCSBE) attorney Josh Lawson said to the assistant U.S. attorney named on the subpoena in an email, which was provided to Fox News. The request comes just weeks after Justice Department officials charged 19 foreign nationals with illegal voting in North Carolina in the 2016 election. The cases are also being investigated by the Immigration and Custom Enforcements (ICE) ...

I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration[Full Thread]Post Date: 2018-09-05 16:47:01 by Willie Green59 CommentsI work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers. We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting process here.President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.Its not just that the ...

Was Omarosa Manigault Newman a Spy for Mueller?Post Date: 2018-08-26 10:00:35 by CZ821 CommentsI was first aware of Omarosa 15 years ago when she was on the original Donald Trump Apprentice TV shows. She seemed then to have an uncanny ability to lose and then get back on the show. That she was a villain seemed to never go away. The recent article by David Chol of Business Insider points out that she was a Democrat and worked in the Clinton White House. People magazine is quoted in the article saying, Her former colleagues described her tenure as rocky. These included Cheryl Shavers, the former Under Secretary for Technology at the Commerce Department, who said that she was asked to leave as quickly as possible, she was so disruptive. Perhaps as we will ...

Weisselberg Flips[Full Thread]Post Date: 2018-08-25 09:55:17 by Willie Green53 CommentsHe spoke to prosecutors in the investigation into Michael Cohen, but hes the one who knows all about Trumps businesses. Trump Organization finance chief Allen Weisselberg has been granted immunity in exchange for giving prosecutors information for the investigation into Donald Trumps former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen and the hush money payments Cohen made to women during the 2016 presidential campaign. The Trump Organization CFOs cooperation is the latest twist in the Manhattan US attorneys offices prosecution of Cohen, which began with an FBI raid in April. This week, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight federal charges, implicating the ...

ANNULMENT OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY[Full Thread]Post Date: 2018-08-24 00:40:00 by nolu chan48 Comments [23 August 2018] Robert Reich 11 hrs ANNULMENT OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY Suppose Robert Mueller comes up with overwhelming evidence that Trump colluded with Russia to become President, and that, were it not for Russias actions during the election, Trump would not have been elected. In other words, Trumps presidency is not authorized under the United States Constitution. Impeachment in the House and conviction in the Senate would remove Trump from office. This would remedy Trumps high crimes and misdemeanors. But impeachment would not remedy Trumps unconstitutional presidency because it would leave in place his vice president, White House staff and ...

In a party dominated by Trumpism, growing ranks of forgotten Republicans sound warningPost Date: 2018-08-19 10:00:57 by Willie Green12 CommentsThe ranks of forgotten Republicans are growing.Some were forced out, such as Tim Pawlenty, a former two-term Minnesota governor who lost this week's bid for a political comeback. Some, such as the retiring Republican Sen. Bob Corker, chose to leave on their own. Others still serve, but with a muted voice.Whether members of Congress, governors or state party leaders, they are struggling to fit into President Donald Trump's Republican Party.The expanding list of marginalized GOP leaders underscores how thoroughly Trump has dominated  and changed  the Republican Party in the nearly two years since he seized the presidency. The overwhelming majority of elected officials, ...

Trump Is a 'Russian Asset' Owned by the MafiaPost Date: 2018-08-18 12:57:26 by Willie Green31 CommentsOmarosa vs. Trump may be the political pro wrestling match of the week, but a more serious confrontation could be prompted by a book that came out Tuesday, alleging that President Donald Trump may be a Russian asset compromised by billions of laundered dollars over decades of shady real estate deals. In House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia, veteran journalist and author Craig Unger names 59 Russians as business associates of Trump (who has claimed he has none) and follows the purported financial links between them and the Trump Organization going back decades. The Trump White House did not immediately ...

Trump Disliked As Strongly As Nixon Was Before Watergate[Full Thread]Post Date: 2018-08-12 10:29:35 by Willie Green41 CommentsPresident Donald Trump is as strongly disliked by the American people as Nixon was just before he resigned from the White House following the Watergate scandal, according to a new poll.The Marist College poll of more than 1,000 adults found that 45 percent of citizens rated Trumps presidential performance as poor last month. Before former-President Nixon resigned in 1974, 45 percent also said he was doing a poor job in a 1974 Harris Poll.One-fifth of respondents rated Trumps performance as excellent, and an additional 20 percent voted that the president was doing a pretty good job. Of those, 49 percent of Republicans ...

‘The Secret Service will physically remove him’Post Date: 2018-08-11 09:59:36 by Willie Green8 CommentsHow will Donald Trumps reign end? On Friday night, MSNBC host Lawrence ODonnell was asked about his prediction by Bill Maher on HBOs Real Time. I would say the most likely ending of it is when Elizabeth Warren, or whoever the Democratic nominee is, beats him in the next election, he said. Maher, who has long held that Trump aspires to be a dictator, said that he doubts Trump will give up the Oval Office smoothly. So you think if he loses the election he will just greet her at the door on January 20th? When the clock strikes 12, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court will administer the oath of office to her, no matter where it ishe ...

In 45 years, I've seen only one other president ever act as desperate as TrumpPost Date: 2018-08-07 09:31:48 by Willie Green7 CommentsPresident Donald Trump is acting with a desperation I've seen only once before in Washington: 45 years ago when President Richard Nixon ordered the firing of special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. Nixon was fixated on ending the Watergate investigation, just as Trump wants to shut down the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. A lesson for the president from history: It turned out badly for Nixon. Not only could he not derail the investigation, but also, 10 months later, he was forced to resign the presidency. In fact, in some ways, Trump is conducting himself more frantically than Nixon, all the while protesting his innocence. ...

Manafort case judge warns Mueller team they 'can't prove conspiracy' without star witnessPost Date: 2018-08-02 13:19:21 by Justified5 CommentsThe federal judge in the trial of ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort told Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team on Thursday they cannot prove a key part of their case unless prosecutors call Manaforts former business partner to the stand. U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III issued the warning after prosecutors suggested Wednesday that Rick Gates  who is cooperating with prosecutors and had been considered a potential star witness  might not be called to the stand after all. Referencing Gates, Ellis told prosecutors in court they cant prove conspiracy without him. Not necessarily, Mueller prosecutor Greg Andres responded, ...

Senate sends $717B defense bill to Trump (John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act)Post Date: 2018-08-01 23:48:01 by Hondo687 Comments "It is what we have to do to defend America," said Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.). The Senate Armed Services Committee Acting Chairman managed the bill for Senate Republicans. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo The Senate on Wednesday easily cleared and sent to President Donald Trump a compromise $717 billion defense policy bill aimed at building up the military and blunting Chinese foreign investment and telecommunications technology. The final vote on the fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act was 87-10. The president is expected to sign it. Next, the Senate turns to legislation to fund the Defense Department, which will likely be packaged with an annual Labor-HHS-Education spending ...

Trump says Koch brothers are a 'total joke'Post Date: 2018-07-31 09:17:43 by Willie Green2 CommentsWashington (CNN) -- President Donald Trump railed Tuesday against billionaire conservative brothers Charles and David Koch, accusing them of being against key components of his populist agenda and suggesting they're irrelevant in today's Republican Party.Trump's public attack, following a weekend in which he was criticized at a Koch network summer meeting, comes amid speculation that the Koch brothers are reconsidering their typically full-throated support for Republican candidates during the midterm elections."The globalist Koch Brothers, who have become a total joke in real Republican circles, are against Strong Borders and Powerful Trade. I never sought their support ...

Rudy Giuliani claims experts believe someone tampered with Cohen Tape: ‘We don’t trust anything’Post Date: 2018-07-30 08:37:28 by Justified1 CommentsRudy Giuliani, a leading attorney for President Donald Trump, told Fox News on Saturday that two experts and retired FBI agents have examined the tape Michael Cohen secretly recorded of Trump in 2016 and concluded it has been tampered with. The tape, which was first reported by CNN, was obtained during an FBI search of Cohen properties earlier this year. On the tape, Cohen and Trump discuss a payment to Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who alleges she entered into an affair with Trump years before he became president. What did Giuliani say? Giuliani told Fox News the released audio of the tape is a tape of a tape, meaning its not entirely clear when the discussion ...

Trump appointee who spread conspiracy theories forced outPost Date: 2018-07-28 17:38:50 by Willie Green1 CommentsXimena Barreto  a Donald Trump political appointee who used social media to spread conspiracy theories about a supposed pizza shop sex ring and made other inflammatory remarks  was escorted from Health and Human Services Department headquarters Friday, according to an individual with knowledge of the situation. Barreto resigned, the individual said. HHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment. An email sent to Barretos HHS account Friday night produced a bounce-back message that the message was undeliverable. Before joining HHS as a deputy communications director in December 2017, Barreto spread conspiracy theories on social media and through ...

New Poll Reveals the Extent of The Democrats’ Impending Doom!Post Date: 2018-07-27 14:11:39 by Liberator31 Comments There seems to be little doubt left that the democratic party did real damage to itself during the 2016 presidential election, not to mention the fact that their response to their self-inflicted pain was less than ethical as well. You see, the democrats are attempting to blame Russia for their embarrassing loss in 2016, claiming that Russian intelligence assets were responsible for leaking emails from within the Hillary Clinton campaign that outlined several immoral and inexcusable actions being undertaking the by the former First Lady. Even if this were true, how can you blame Russia for exposing the truth? The Kremlin gave the American people the information necessary to make ...

President of the United States to Entire World: "THE REAL ENEMY, THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA" (July 19 Tweet)Post Date: 2018-07-19 13:35:41 by Liberator7 CommentsThe Summit with Russia was a great success, except with the real enemy of the people, the Fake News Media. I look forward to our second meeting so that we can start implementing some of the many things discussed, including stopping terrorism, security for Israel, nuclear........  Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2018 ....proliferation, cyber attacks, trade, Ukraine, Middle East peace, North Korea and more. There are many answers, some easy and some hard, to these problems...but they can ALL be solved!  Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2018 On Thursday, President Trump advised us that he wants to have a second meeting with Russian President Vladimir ...

Trump,Putin,and politicsPost Date: 2018-07-19 07:58:57 by sneakypete26 CommentsThere are some ugly truths that need to be mentioned that are normally not discussed about retail politics. The media knows and understands them,but don't care because they exist to stir up people in order to turn a profit. Problem number 1 is Trump is not a politician. He is a private citizen and a international businessman. As such,he has lived his entire life playing the political "game" under different rules. Some rules are identical,such as describing someone you can't stand but need to temporarily ally with in order to "sell" your product,be it ideological/political or commercial as "My good friend!",while the reality is you would love to set ...

Is the Media the “Enemy of the People”?Post Date: 2018-07-18 09:22:48 by misterwhite13 CommentsIf an enemy controlled the media, would the news look any different? Traveling on Air Force One to Helsinki, President Trump tweeted that the media was the enemy of the people. It wasnt the first time that he had said or tweeted it. And it never fails to get a rise out of the media. President Trump had referred to the New York Times, CNN and NBC News as the enemy of the American people shortly after taking office. At CPAC, soon afterward, he declared, I called the fake news the enemy of the people, and they are  they are the enemy of the people. Trumps comments inspired Washington Post and New York Times pieces comparing him to ...

Trump isn’t attacking NATO. He’s strengthening it.Post Date: 2018-07-15 08:40:43 by Tooconservative4 Comments As President Trump put Germany and other allies on notice for the harm they are doing to NATO with their failure to spend adequately on our common defense, Democrats in Washington came to Germanys defense. President Trumps brazen insults and denigration of one of Americas most steadfast allies, Germany, is an embarrassment, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a joint statement. Sorry, Trump is right. The real embarrassment is that Germany, one of the wealthiest countries in Europe, spends just 1.24 percent of its gross domestic product on defense  in the bottom half of NATO allies. (The U.S. spends ...

Hanson: Why the left keeps saying Trump is a Nazi, fascist, tyrant or buffoonPost Date: 2018-07-13 13:05:31 by tpaine5 Comments Hanson: Why the left keeps saying Trump is a Nazi, fascist, tyrant or buffoon Furious over the unexpected loss of power, enraged progressives have done almost everything to lose even more of it. Democrats have endlessly replayed the 2016 election. In Groundhog Day fashion, Hillary Clinton repeatedly offered tired excuses for her loss. Key Trump administration officials have been confronted at restaurants. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) urged protestors to hound Trump officials at restaurants, gas stations or department stores. Progressive pundits and the liberal media almost daily think up new ways of characterizing President Trump as a Nazi, fascist, tyrant or buffoon. Celebrities ...